--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 12, 2005, at 12:21 AM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > What if we began our own accounting of such deaths? My start is the > > attached table. If you think it makes sense you might solicit names > > on FFL. > > > I'm part of an international sangha/community of a several thousand > hardcore yogis and meditators. Our quarterly newspaper lists all the > births and deaths in the community. There are several a year. My > observation would be that a good number of people who are hardcore > meditators are also hardcore into alternative health practices. In > some cases they will even forego any allopathic treatment in favor of > Ayurveda or Tibetan medicine, etc. etc. The majority of these people > die early because they either do not seek "conventional" treatment > for diseases (with sometime excellent prognoses) or they delay > conventional treatment. An example that comes to mind was a woman who > worked at the health food supermarket. She had a fibroid the size of > a large grapefruit. Because she believed she should do everything > "all natural" she refused to have this removed--even though that > meant she could no longer have sex. Granted, in this case it was > benign, but that just highlights in my mind what lengths some will go > to to maintain a belief system--even when conventional treatment is > quite capable of helping them or even curing them.
Yes, excellent point -- as if conventional treatment is somehow NOT a part of "God" or wholeness -- the old ignoring-the-helicopter- while-waiting-for-God-to-rescue-us-from-the-roof dodge :-) > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
